Common law legal actions can easily handle the simple case in which one property owner causes obvious harm to another, what about the not-so-simple case?. That’s the question Jonathan H. Adler addresses in the “tough questions” issue of PERC Reports. You can read Jonathan’s article as well as the entire “tough questions” edition of […]
[…] LA hopes will ease chronic traffic jams. For decades, urban areas across the country have been adding lanes and building roads to fight congestion, but a recent study by University of Toronto researchers finds that widening and building more roads actually creates more traffic. “What we found was that in cities where there was […]
Brett Howell provides updates from a gathering of PERC’s Enviropreneur Institute at the Flying D Ranch.
In the latest PERC Reports, James Workman lays out a provocative plan for wolf management in the West: As a hunter, lifelong environmentalist, and wolf advocate at the U.S. Department of the Interior during the 1990s, I have a modest proposal: de-politicize the warmblooded wolf by trusting its fate to cold market forces; […]
by Annie Ireland PERC’s Laura Huggins goes back to the basics of free market environmentalism in this interview on Greensense, a radio show hosted by Robert Colangelo that provides an inside look at green initiatives. Huggins discusses the success of Namibia’s communal wildlife conservancies in turning wildlife from a liability into an asset. She explains […]
[…] research rooted in the principles of property rights and markets. It was this focus on research that led to Terry Anderson and Donald Leal’s influential 1990 book Free Market Environmentalism—the first comprehensive argument for “rethinking the way we think” about the environment. With the third edition of the book forthcoming, PERC recently held a […]
Despite oil spills, hurricanes and a long history of misguided federal rules, Texas’ commercial fishermen are doing better than ever thanks to new management based on free-market principles and local control.
[…] privatization. Fantastic!” “I have lived my entire life doubting the ability for free markets to do anything but breed greed and oppression. I now realize that our planet will surely collapse without them.” “Warning: This colloquium will change the way you think about things. It will frustrate you, excite you, confuse you – but […]
It is officially summer and that means PERC is welcoming dozens of visiting fellows ranging from scholars and students to journalists and entrepreneurs. Last week we welcomed Richard Rice, the co-founder and president of the Save Your World Foundation—a nonprofit whose mission is to protect globally significant areas through incentive-based conservation agreements.
[…] research rooted in the principles of property rights and markets. It was this focus on research that led to Terry Anderson and Donald Leal’s influential 1990 book Free Market Environmentalism—the first comprehensive argument for “rethinking the way we think” about the environment. With the third edition of the book forthcoming, PERC recently held a […]